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At the gates of Moscow, Napoleon's Grand Army prepares to enter in triumphal procession. But what it finds is a city abandoned by its inhabitants - save only the men who emerge to fan the flames as incendiary fuses hidden throughout the empty buildings of Moscow set the city alight. For three days Moscow burned, while looters dodged the fires to plunder and pillage. And so begins 1812: Napoleon in Moscow, Paul Britten Austin's atmospheric second volume in his acclaimed trilogy on Napoleon's catastrophic invasion of Russia.After the fires died down the army settled in the ruins of Moscow; for f… (mehr)
Artymedon: This is a fictional account of the Retreat of Russia with the talent of Mr. Rambaud who obtained the Prix Goncourt for his book [the Battle]. Mr Rambaud looked into diaries and other unpublished source to recreate the predicament of the Grande Armee and the followers of Napoleon to Moscow.… (mehr)
The preface of "1812, Napoleon in Moscow" tells it is the sequel to "1812:The March on Moscow". I did not read Paul Britten Austin's first installment. But diverse maps of Moscow's suburbs and the greater Moscow region, up to Malojaroslavetz where the "Grand Army"'s conquest of the world was stopped in its tracks prompting its strategic, decimating and fatal retreat. guide the reader throughout. All put the reader in the shoes of Napoleon's followers, from Generals to Privates.
The narrative lifts a heavy velvet curtain on what happened there in great details to intimately understand the misconception of a mission of civilization gone wrong. As the French Emperor's "coalition of the willing" march to Moscow was seen by Kutusov and the Russians as "a marauding force of Tartars under a Genghis Khan". Paul Britten Austin's writings convey something truly Neronian in the depiction of Napoleon watching, from the towers of the Kremlin , the fires lit all over Moscow by Rostopchin's agents. Yet his demoniac genius finds the time, concentration or perhaps the escape in writing the regulations of the Comedie-Francaise, Moliere's French National Theater founded by his illustrious predecessor - equally unlucky as to his legacy of a war impoverished Nation - Louis XIV.
But destiny would have that Napoleon did not end his luminous passage on our Earth trampled in the snow by the horses of Platov's 6,000 Cossaks... ( )
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For the first time since the Grand Army had crossed the Niemen at midsummer, 83 days ago, Colonel Lubin Griois, commanding 3rd Cavalry Corps horse artillery; and his aristocratic friend Colonel Jumilhac, the corps' chief-of-staff, have slept in beds.
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Asks him to make him up a phial of quick-acting poison he can wear 'in a little leather bag round his neck', to be taken if he should be captured.
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At the gates of Moscow, Napoleon's Grand Army prepares to enter in triumphal procession. But what it finds is a city abandoned by its inhabitants - save only the men who emerge to fan the flames as incendiary fuses hidden throughout the empty buildings of Moscow set the city alight. For three days Moscow burned, while looters dodged the fires to plunder and pillage. And so begins 1812: Napoleon in Moscow, Paul Britten Austin's atmospheric second volume in his acclaimed trilogy on Napoleon's catastrophic invasion of Russia.After the fires died down the army settled in the ruins of Moscow; for f
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The narrative lifts a heavy velvet curtain on what happened there in great details to intimately understand the misconception of a mission of civilization gone wrong. As the French Emperor's "coalition of the willing" march to Moscow was seen by Kutusov and the Russians as "a marauding force of Tartars under a Genghis Khan". Paul Britten Austin's writings convey something truly Neronian in the depiction of Napoleon watching, from the towers of the Kremlin , the fires lit all over Moscow by Rostopchin's agents. Yet his demoniac genius finds the time, concentration or perhaps the escape in writing the regulations of the Comedie-Francaise, Moliere's French National Theater founded by his illustrious predecessor - equally unlucky as to his legacy of a war impoverished Nation - Louis XIV.
But destiny would have that Napoleon did not end his luminous passage on our Earth trampled in the snow by the horses of Platov's 6,000 Cossaks... (